"There's nicer hotels in Northridge!" |
Locked Up! | |
Season 2, Episode 6-7 | |
First Aired | July 30th, 2011 |
Production Code | 203-204 |
Writer(s) | Dan Schneider |
Director(s) | Steve Hoefer |
Viewed By: | 5.2 million |
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Locked Up! (also known as Victorious: LOCKED UP[1]) is a Victorious hour-long special that was promoted as a movie.[2] It marks the sixth and seven.th episodes of the second season and the 26th and 27th overall. It is a 1-hour special that first aired on July 30, 2011 at 8 PM. Two songs were featured; the first, "All I Want Is Everything" is an original song, and the second is "I Want You Back", originally sung by the Jackson 5 brothers. This is the 2nd hour-long special, after Freak the Freak Out
Plot[]
The episode starts when Festus, who runs the Grub Truck, overhears that Tori and her friends have no vacation plans. He tells her that his brother lives in a country called Yerba, and he owns the best hotel there, and if Tori and the gang perform there for seven nights, their whole vacation will be free.
Tori is persuaded by her parents David and Holly to take Trina along and have an adult supervise them in exchange that they get her a car.
The Victorious gang takes a trip to Yerba, an island nation. Tori thinks she planned the perfect vacation, with luxurious foods and service, but lets everyone down when they are placed in a rundown hotel room with critters and insects as well as disgusting meals. Andre also gets a vampire moth bite and has severe swelling on his neck. On top of that, there are soldiers everywhere because, as they also find out, the country is at war. When they go to complain, they are held to their promise that they will perform a song each night.
But while performing for the chancellor, Tori's shoe comes off her foot, flies across the room, and hits the chancellor in the eye. Robbie reveals that his was last good eye since he has an eye patch on the other side. She is then sentenced to four years in a Yerbanian prison. While Tori is in prison, André, Robbie, Jade, Cat, and Trina tell Tori that Beck and Sikowitz are trying to get through to Tori's parents, the United States Ambassador, and/or anyone high up who can negotiate for Tori's release.
Later, when they try to get Tori released, Robbie accidentally kills the chancellor's octopus (which was given to the chancellor as a gift from the Prince of Gustavia), causing the rest of them to be put in prison.
Eventually, Tori (and Sikowitz, to some extent) concocts a plan to get out, which involves a hit song. After performing I Want You Back with the other prisoners for the chancellor, the gang sneaks out and escapes across the border in a duck truck.
Songs Featured[]
Guest Stars[]
- Eric Lange as Erwin Sikowitz
- Jennifer Carta as Holly Vega
- Jim Pirri as David Vega
- Marco Aiello as Festus
- Mueen Jahan as Chancellor[3]
- Winston Story as Sgrodis
Co-Stars[]
Featuring Stars[]
- Chris Antonucci as BTS stunt double[3]
- Ammar Daraiseh as Ogg-Yob[3]
- Ali Dean as Short Prisoner[3]
- Aline Elasmar as Pocknish[3]
- Darrel Guilbeau as Yorvis[3]
- Mark Alexander Herz as Yerbanian Prison Guard[3]
- Troy Kamren as Big Yerbanian Guard[3]
- Michael Hilow as Kerploch[3]
- Maria Russell as Fecknasha[3]
Security Guards[]
Policemen[]
Yerbanian Women[]
Dancers[]
Prisoners[]
Trivia[]
- This was filmed during the week of Matt's birthday.
- This episode name could be a reference to Akon's song named 'Locked Up'.
- This is the third time the gang gets trapped somewhere. The first two times were in Survival of the Hottest and Terror on Cupcake Street.
- The difference is that Trina shows up uninvited with the gang but in this episode, Trina gets invited to go with the gang.
- The country of Yerba does not exist and was specifically created for the episode. It is also apparent that while the Chancellor is the Yerbanian equivalent to the United States President, the position is also the leader of the Federal Judicial branch of the Yerbanian government.
- When André asks where the hotel in the picture is Festus' brother says "I don't know maybe Cancun." That hotel actually is in Cancun. On an episode of The Price Is Right which aired around the same time as this episode, a showcase featured a trip to Cancun and the same hotel shown in the picture was featured.
- The special has its own unique opening theme sequence, using its own title card and scenes only found in this episode. However, the scenes in the regular sequence that are not part of any episodes, such as the daydreaming in the car and using graffiti on the camera lens, are still used. While "Freak the Freak Out" had its own title card, the opening sequence only used an extended version of the theme song with unique non-episode scenes.
- This is the first time the main character has been incarcerated.
- Beck returns after being absent for two episodes in a row.
- This is the second Victorious episode to be one hour long. The first was "Freak the Freak Out".
- Southeast Asia was referenced in this episode:
- The concept of the dancing prisoners is inspired by the dancing inmates in Cebu, Philippines who performed "Thriller" (2007) and "They Don't Care About Us" (2010).
- In the promo, one of the prisoners said, "Give me your sevens." However, that line was cut from the episode for an unknown reason.
- This is the third time Cat's PearPad appears. The first time was in Tori Gets Stuck, and the second time was in Prom Wrecker.
- Part 2 is one of 4 episodes where Tori does not post status updates. The following three being The Breakfast Bunch, April Fools' Blank, and Cell Block both this and the latter are a result of the gang's phones being confiscated.
- Sikowitz calls Robbie "Urkel", which is a reference to Steve Urkel, a clumsy and nerdy character from the television program, Family Matters.
- The "duck truck" is a 1954 Ford F-Series.
- How the gang gets to Yerba is never explained but is it likely that they flew there by plane.
- Where Yerba is located is never stated Tori begins to explain but is interrupted by Sikowitz before she can finish.
- This is the first episode to take place outside Los Angeles.
- Jade wipes her lips after picking up the dead lizard which could imply that she ate it.
- When the gang escapes from the prison, it is very similar to a scene in The Sound of Music where the Von Trapp family runs away after a musical number and a Nazi officer notices that they're gone. Perhaps it was a reference to the particular scene.
- Festus mentions on TheSlap that he wished he could have a truck at Pacific Coast Academy, the school that was the main setting of Dan Schneider's earlier show, Zoey 101.
- This is the only time Tori checked her voice to see if she really sounds like a 1940s movie star.
- When Tori is checking her voice, it's actually Elizabeth Gillies saying the line (using a voice-over clip).
- This is the 10th time Jade has impersonated Tori as a 1940s movie star, previously imitating her in the episodes Wok Star, Beck Falls for Tori, Ice Cream for Ke$ha, Tori Gets Stuck and Prom Wrecker
- According to Dan Schneider on DanWarp, when André was craving for salt, Leon actually ate sugar instead of the real thing.
- Of the three Victorious specials to date, as well as iParty with Victorious, this one is the only one to serve as a lead-in to a new episode of another Nickelodeon show (in this case, Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures).
- In Dan's blog, he says that it was Victoria's idea to say "Come on buddy!" to end the scene when Festus gave her his long phone number.
- Ending tagline: Robbie: "There was a grenade in my toilet!"
- This is the second time that Robbie is the ending tagline, first being the previous episode.
- In the penultimate scene when the guards discover that the gang has escaped and everyone goes frantic, the alarm heard is the same fire alarm used in previous episodes of Dan's shows (such as the Drippin' episode in Zoey 101 and iWanna Stay with Spencer on iCarly).
- Dan Schneider posted on his blog that the reason we see André and Jade bolt offstage after Tori hits the chancellor in the eye is that the actors who play them, Leon Thomas III and Elizabeth Gillies were under 18 at the time and child labor laws prevented them from working past a certain time limit/number of hours.
- This is the first time Holly Vega and David Vega appear in Season 2.
- There was also no mention of Festus or his brother in future episodes regarding the lock-up so it likely that Festus moved back to Yerba.
- The room keys they are given are screwdrivers, this could be a reference to Rugrats.
- Before the chancellor is introduced, Robbie is seen giving the Vulcan salute, an iconic hand gesture popularized from the Star Trek franchise.
- This episode offended many viewers as it takes place in the middle of a war.
- When Tori's shoe comes off and hits the chancellor while performing, it may be a reference to Monster High when Frankie's lower leg part came off during "fearleading" tryouts and hit the coach.
- This episode premiered in Asia 8 months after shooting (May 2012).
- It is revealed that Cat "likes" mushrooms.
- "All I Want Is Everything" was the first live performance in a foreign country by the gang.
- Cat Valentine was eating a Strawberry Pop-Tart in the Vega household, at the time, one of Ariana Grande's favorite snacks.
- Tori's parents try to bribe her into taking Trina with her to Yerba by offering to buy her a car, even though Tori couldn't drive yet.
- They most likely meant that they will get her a car when she gets her license.
- It's been revealed that Robbie's mother once moved out, but came back to give him another chance.
- Jade peacefully sleeps during the war and the sound of bombs.
- Some scenes were cut for the two-part edit:[4]
- Part 1
- Tori agreeing with what Beck said about how "nice" the hotel is.
- Cat "liking" mushrooms (with Tori yelling her name).
- Robbie mentioning how he loathes the hotel.
- Tori remarking that she wants to leave Yerba, and Sikowitz pleading the children to like the Yerbanian gravy.
- Tori checking her voice to make sure she sounds like a movie star from the 1940s.
- Part 2
- The boy doctor checking the Chancellor of Yerba's other eye, after Tori's shoe kicked him, and his (Chancellor) minion agreeing that he lost his eye.
- Sikowitz complaining about Tori's arrest, mentioning that he's got to get a soda, and Trina on the verge of crying.
- The Chancellor of Yerba putting ketchup on the table and having to be readjusted to make it land on the fries.
- Robbie attempting to resist being arrested.
- Sikowitz being caught by the Groshyn while escaping the Yerbanian prison.
- Additionally, André eating salt was cut from the UK broadcast.
- Part 1
- Coincidentally, both songs performed for this episode include the phrase "I want" in their titles (All I Want is Everything & I Want You Back).
- Mueen Jahan Ahmad, the actor who portrayed the Chancellor, revealed that a sponge molded into the shape of a shoe was thrown at him.[5]
- The prison uniforms are written in both Cyrillic and Armenian alphabets.
- Trina is seen wearing her sneakers from Jade Dumps Beck in this episode.
Running Gags[]
- Sikowitz not remembering trips he took when he was younger.
- Yerbanians sniffing the students' hands.
- André with his vampire moth symptoms, including massive swelling, hallucinations, bizarre speech patterns, and a craving for salt.
- Yerbanian soldiers capturing people, the captives getting away, and then being recaptured.
- Yerbanian soldiers being told to do something but just stand there, and then a few moments later saying, "Oh, now?"
- Yerbanians calling people "Buddy" and saying porpoise instead of purpose and "o-ka-topus" rather than octopus.
- Yerbanians liking Beck's 'fluffy' hair.
- The chancellor facing the wrong way due to his blindness and having to be readjusted.
- Robbie somehow getting stuck with the girls.
- The doctor's son giving the patients lollipops.
- The chancellor saying 'porpoise' instead of 'purpose'.
Reception[]
The special has received mixed reactions from fans but overall most of them were positive. It premiered to a total of 5.201 million viewers and had 4.073 million viewers on the 11 AM repeat the following day.
Quotes[]
Sgrodis: Who wants mushroom?
Tori: No one!
Cat: I love mushrooms!
Tori: Cat!
Cat: I hate mushrooms?
Festus: I have the spaghetti....
Tori: OH!
Festus: ..the ravioli...
Tori: I love ravioli!
Festus: YOU LET ME FINISH!
Tori: He's got the spaghetti, the ravioli...
Cat: Ravioli?!
André: You let her finish!
Jade: Before you booked our trip here, you forgot to find out that this is the worst country on Earth?!
Tori: [pauses] Yeah.
Sikowitz: Jade, don't be such a Crabby-Cathy!
Jade: I have every right to be a Crabby-Cathy... [turns head and sees two girls playing with Beck's hair] Crabby-Cathy is about to get a little bit crabbier!
Cat: I think those girls like Beck's fluffy American hair.
Jade: Clearly. [walks over the couch in front of Beck and the two girls playing with his hair] Hey! Get your hands off my boyfriend's head!
Girls: [hiss at Jade]
Jade: [hisses back more fiercely]
Girls: [freak out and walk away]
Jade: Okay. I just woke up...and I found this sitting on my chest. [holds up a lizard]
Tori: Ewww...
Cat: A dead lizard?
Jade: It's dead now. [wipes her lips]
Prisoner: Hey!
André: We're...we're gonna die!
Beck: Don't act scared.
André: I'm not acting!
Prisoner: Hey! How you make your hair so... fluffy?
Beck: Well, it all starts with a quality shampoo and conditioner.
Prisoner: Ohhh, conditioner... [the prisoners nod]
Prisoner: Give me your sevens!
Tori: Uh... go fish?
(This line was cut from the actual episode.)
Cat: [scared] I don't like this hotel...
Man: [jumps through the window)
Tori, Cat, Trina, and Robbie: AHHHHH!!!!!!
Robbie: Where have you been?!
Cat: I joined the prison gang!
Jade: And you said yes?
Cat: I promised the gang ladies that I will make us all special T-shirts!
Tori: Where did you get that outfit?! [Sikowitz is wearing a Yerbanian Soldier Uniform.]
Sikowitz: They sell these at the hotel gift shop. How stupid is that!
Tori: What's going on?
Beck: My Aunt says we can't go to Cancún.
Tori: Aw...how come?
Beck: She found out I was bringing Jade.
Sikowitz: HA!
Beck: So I heard some of you guys are going to Yerba.
Tori: Yes, yes we are. Would you like to come to Yerba with us, Beck?
Beck: Oh, that'd be great, thanks.
Tori: Jade...do you have a question for me?
Jade: [quickly and shyly] ...Can I come to Yerba? [turns her head away]
Tori: Maybe, but first, you gotta give me a hug... [whispers] Come on, come on, just do it.
Jade: [whispers) No I don't want to.
Tori: Do it.
Jade: [hugs Tori]
Tori: Aww, see! Givin' Tori a big ol' hug isn't such a bad th- okay, that's really tight... Oh God, help me! Somebody do something! [falls down due to Jade squeezing her too tight]
Tori: You guys make it seem like we're in the middle of some kind of-
[bomb goes off]
Everyone: AHHHHH!!!!
Tori: We are getting out of this country!
Robbie: Why have you put me on the girl's side of this prison? I'm clearly a boy.
Officers: [look at each other mischievously] Prove it!
Robbie: Fine, I'll stay on the girl's side.
Robbie: [climbs out of the bed between Trina and Cat]
Tori: Dude!
Trina: Robbie!
Cat: Hi.
Tori: You have a nice truck.
Festus: Don't lie to me.
Tori: I'm sorry.
Mrs. Vega: Trina, get an ice pack!
Trina: Nooo, I have to go paint my nails! [runs upstairs]
Trina: [runs inside angry] I'm never playing mini golf with you guys again!
Mrs. Vega: Promise?
Tori: What happened?
Mrs. Vega: Trina missed a putt and got upset so she threw the golf club at your father!
Trina: No! I threw my golf club and Dad just stood there and let it hit him!
Mrs. Vega: Oh, hey, did you talk to your friends about Yerba?
Tori: Yeah, I think we're all going!
Mrs. Vega: Good! You're taking Trina!
Tori: No!
Mrs. Vega: Yes!
Mr. Vega: You are taking Trina!
Tori: Not happening! [walks away]
Mrs. Vega: We'll buy you a car!
Mr. Vega: Any car you want.
Tori: [turns around]
Mr. Vega: You don't even have to bring her back!
Cat: Hey! What's for lunch?
Tori: [mocking Festus] Uh, they got a spaghetti a ravioli-
Cat: Ravioli?!
André: [mocking Festus] YOU LET HER FINISH!
Cat: [laughs]
André: Ravioli. [smiles]
Cat: Like pasta pillows!
Tori: What's so bad about your rooms?
Trina: Well, we can start with the foreign man I found in my closet!
Robbie: And there was a grenade in my toilet.
Rex: They got nicer hotels in Northridge!
Cat: One time when my brother was in prison, he told the people in charge he was a vegetarian so they gave him special meals. Oh wait, that was on an airplane.
Sgrodis: You two stay quiet and don't cause trouble.
Sikowitz: [loudly] Where is Tori?!
Trina: [loudly] I wanna see my sister!!!!
Cat: Ew, Jade your outfit's all dirty.
Jade: [sarcastically] Oh no, now I'll never win the prison beauty pageant.
Trina: Wait, they have that?!
Tori: Wow. Do I talk like that? [imitates Jade's fake Tori accent] [in her normal voice] No, I don't talk like that.
Sikowitz: Yerba?
Tori: Yeah, it's just a small island off the coast of...
Sikowitz: Oh I know where it is. I spent two weeks in Yerba when I was 23.
Tori: Cool. So what's it like?
Sikowitz: I don't remember nothing of that trip.
Tori: Well do you want to be our chaperone?
Sikowitz: To what?
Tori: Our trip to Yerba!
Sikowitz: Yerba? I spent two weeks there when I was 23.
Trina: Has anyone tried to beat you up?
Tori: No; I've got some street cred in here. 'Cause they think I'm the psycho girl who stabbed the chancellor in his eye.
Cat: ... You are.
Trina: We are leaving this country now!
Sgrodis: You kids promised to make sing-song here for seven nights.
Sikowitz: Well, I'm afraid that's a promise they're going to have to break.
Sgrodis: Are they? [pulls a lever and three Yerbanian soldiers come in]
Tori: ...So? What song should we sing tomorrow night?
Tori: I'm ready to see the chancellor I want to confess the truth.
Solider: Alright we will take you to the chancellor.
[Long pause]
Tori: Can you take me now...
Solider: OH NOW! Sure! Give me key!
Trina: Okay Robbie and I just looked at our rooms and there's no way I'm staying here.
Goofs[]
- The gang should've been denied to enter Yerba if it was currently at war. In fact, Yerba shouldn't be allowing tourists to enter their territory if it's in that current condition.
- When everyone goes to the chancellor to try and get Tori out of prison, André has a large lump on his neck because of the bite from the vampire moth. But in the next scene, the lump is gone, and since there is no mention of it from that point on, it might have been cured.
- Festus' brother should not have a picture of a hotel that doesn't belong to him on his website or hanging in the lobby of his hotel. When André asks where that specific hotel is he says "I don't know maybe Cancun." In fact, that hotel is located in Cancun.
- Sikowitz says he will drive the students to the border of Yerba. However, as Yerba is an island, this would be impossible, unless there was a bridge, but that is doubtful.
- Tori's parents promise to buy her a car if she takes Trina to Yerba, but it's later shown in that Driving Tori Crazy that Tori is unable to drive.
- It is possible that they meant they will get her a car once she is able to drive.
- When the gang was incarcerated, they all more than likely had their cell phones stripped from them. How did Sikowitz get them back?
- It was likely that because he was in his disguise, he was able to go through the prison and find their things.
- Technically, jumping the gun and imprisoning any foreign visitor, without a fair trial, is illegal as they must be expelled from the country to serve their sentence in their native country. The process is called extradition. However, the episode implies Yerba's leadership is corrupt.
- When Robbie crawls into bed with the girls, he comes up from the bottom. But if you look closely, the blankets appear to be tucked in.
- Also, Trina and Cat move apart right before Robbie crawls up, even though they were closer before then.
- Tori's high-heeled shoe flung off of her foot to the chancellor. However, it is clearly seen to have a strap on it, so even if she could kick it off, it probably wouldn't hit far enough to the chancellor.
- Since the gang was traveling outside the United States they would have needed passports to enter Yerba. It is unconfirmed whether or not they all had passports to begin with.
- When Tori walks behind Festus' truck, you see her foot stop moving from under the truck while Cat and André talk. When the camera goes on Tori, she keeps walking like she only came around the corner of the truck.
- In the opening credits for this episode, the scenes were supposed to have what were in this one. However, there was a scene of Cat from Prom Wrecker.
- Robbie shouldn't ended up in the women's section of the prison in the first place. In real life, when convicted criminals are sent to prison, they all must undergo a strip search, where they must remove all of their clothing to ensure they are not hiding any weapons or contraband. Once whoever was conducting the strip search would have seen Robbie naked, he would have been automatically sent to the men's section of the prison.
- Tori first got their keys to the room so they couldn't have got into their rooms yet, but Trina and Robbie said that they've seen their rooms. However, Tori had not given them their keys yet or maybe they got their room keys first.
- For a character who's supposed to have no talent, Trina was singing perfectly, and nailing pretty much all of the dance moves during "All I Want is Everything" and during "I Want You Back".
- When Tori is being carried off by the Yerbanian soldiers the first time Trina yells "that's my sister", but captions say "she's my big sister".
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References[]
- ↑ http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2011/07/coming-soon-icarly-victorious-lots.html
- ↑ HD Victorious - "Locked Up" Official Trailer
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 3.53 3.54 3.55 3.56 3.57 3.58 3.59 Ending credits
- ↑ https://thepearsource.wordpress.com/shows/victorious/version-comparisons/locked-up/
- ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@victoriouslycrazypodcast/video/7232878556915764522
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